Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Of this world each man has as much as he takes.

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Life | Life | Men |

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The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.

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Art | Control | Work | Art |

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Teeth placed in front of the tongue give good advice.

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System |

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Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.

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Absolute | Belief |

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No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.

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Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

One should learn to sail in all winds.

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Future | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Not all words require an answer.

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Better | God | Will | God |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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Italian Proverbs

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.

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Individual | Thought | Will | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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Italian Proverbs

That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

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Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.

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Wants | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.

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Vision | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

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